For AI, the ideal language is one that’s grammatically rich — packing tense, gender, and mood into each word — and written in the Latin alphabet, which tokenizers handle more efficiently than complex scripts like Chinese or Tamil. More grammar per sentence means more meaning per token — and faster learning. This may sound like an obscure linguistic theory. But it’s actually a key reason why Polish — yes, Polish — just outperformed English and Chinese in a benchmark designed t

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, The...